TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rubin,Rachel Lee
AU  - Melnick,Jeffrey
TI  - Immigration and American Popular Culture: An Introduction 
T2  - Nation of Nations
SN  - 9780814775523
U1  - 304.8/73 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American
KW  - Immigration
KW  - between
KW  - case
KW  - century
KW  - culture
KW  - immigrants
KW  - industry
KW  - looks
KW  - popular
KW  - relationship
KW  - series
KW  - studies
KW  - through
KW  - twentieth
N1  - restricted access
N2  - How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America.Supplemented by a timeline of key events and extensive suggestions for further reading, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers at once a unique history of twentieth century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the major approaches to the study of popular culture. Melnick and Rubin go further to demonstrate how completely and complexly the processes of immigration and cultural production have been intertwined, and how we cannot understand one without the other
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ER  -